kerble wrote:there are 10 types of people who understand binary: those that do and those that don't.

There are 10 types of people: those that do understand binary and those that don't.

Kerble, I'm not sure that you understand binary.

To get back to 1337 - it's an alphabet, not a language.

On music - I reject the idea of music as a real language. I agree that it has many of the components of a language, with analogues to grammar and vocabulary and punctuation and so on. And it can convey information, I suppose, to a very limited extent. I mean, you can write a simple piece that says "placid", and any listener from anywhere in the world can listen to it, and probably get "placid". Or you can write a more complicated piece that conveys more complex feelings and again, it's universal. But you can't write music that says, "My home, located at 635 Maple, has caught fire due to my carelessness in preparing dinner. Please send a fire engine right away!" or "Before I moved here in January, I lived in St. Louis for a while," or even "My name is Peter Phillips, nice to meet you."

I would say that music is very similar to a language, and to the extent that it communicates, it does so universally, which no language can do. But I think it's stretching things to call it a language.

AZKaban wrote:I hate to interrupt the binary thingie, but it says "Specify Bellow"

I speak Bellow! It's the ancient shouting language of the Screamy Shouty Tribe of New Guinea.

stewie wrote:

AZKaban wrote:I hate to interrupt the binary thingie, but it says "Specify Bellow"

I speak Bellow! It's the ancient shouting language of the Screamy Shouty Tribe of New Guinea.

That's funny, I thought it was the language of eccentric American millionaires that travel to Africa to live with various African tribes and try to become great healers.

PS, Happy St. Pad Thai!

stackmatic wrote:

kerble wrote:there are 10 types of people who understand binary: those that do and those that don't.

There are 10 types of people: those that do understand binary and those that don't.

Kerble, I'm not sure that you understand binary.

no, I do. Binary is my mother tongue, and English is obviously my second.





Faiz

I'm not sure why, but I wanted to add this:

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Linus Van Pelt wrote:I would say that music is very similar to a language, and to the extent that it communicates, it does so universally, which no language can do. But I think it's stretching things to call it a language.

see there are several different types/levels of language...the chomsky hierarchy...most of it exists in a very abstract realm, and definitely music doesn't fit into the more complex language strata ("recurisve" i had to look the word up again as i'd forgotten...) but anyway, yes, i'm pretty sure music is a language...a far simpler language than the standard spoken language, etc...but i could come up withl some REALLY simple languages if the need required...

stackmatic wrote:There are 10 types of people: those that do understand binary and those that don't.

Kerble, I'm not sure that you understand binary.

the binary number 10: 1*(2^1)+0*(2^0)=2+0=2 (in our user-friendly base 10)